Strong opinions, weakly held

Is anyone else troubled by the profusion of ads for online casinos that have been popping up only slightly less frequently than X10 ads lately? I even see them on sites like Yahoo, which means that Internet ad rates have truly fallen through the floor or there are lots of people paying to gamble online. Isn’t it the case that online casinos are basically unregulated and there’s no guarantee that the computer program you’re gambling against obeys the rules at all? Maybe that’s why they can afford to buy so much advertising …